NH DCYF Statewide Assessment's July 2010-Nashua only-Failed Again!

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NH DCYF Statewide Assessment's July 2010-Nashua only

Item 1: Timeliness of initiating investigations of reports of child maltreatment
How effective is the agency in responding to incoming reports of child maltreatment in a timely manner?
Percent Rated as a Strength
Nashua
Aug-10
75

Item 2: Repeat Maltreatment
How effective is the agency in reducing the recurrence of maltreatment of children?
Nashua
Aug-09
No Answer

Item 3: Services to family to protect children in the home and prevent removal or re-entry into foster care
How effective is the agency in providing services, when appropriate, to prevent removal of children from their homes?
Nashua
Aug-10
83.3

Item 4: Risk assessment and safety management
How effective is the agency in reducing the risk of harm to children, including those in foster care and those who receive
services in their own homes?
Nashua
Aug-10
66.7

Item 5: Foster care re-entries
How effective is the agency in preventing multiple entries of children into foster care?
Nashua
Aug-10
No Answer

Item 6: Stability of foster care placement
How effective is the agency in providing placement stability for children in foster care?
Nashua
Aug-10
77.8

Item 7: Permanency goal for child
How effective is the agency in determining the appropriate permanency goals for children on a timely basis when
they enter foster care
Nashua
Aug-10
44.4

Item 8: Reunification, guardianship, or permanent placement with relatives
How effective is the agency in helping children in foster care return safely to their families when appropriate?
Nashua
Aug-10
66.7

Item 9: Adoption
How effective is the agency in achieving timely adoption when that is appropriate for the child?
Nashua
Aug-10
25

Item 10: Other permanent planned living arrangement
How effective is the agency in establishing planned permanent living arrangements for children in foster care,
who do not have the goal of reunification, adoption, guardianship, or permanent placement with relatives, and
providing services consistent with the goal?
Nashua
Aug-10
75

Item 11: Proximity of out of home placement
How effective is the agency in placing foster children close to their birth parents or their own communities or counties?
Nashua
Aug-10
88.9

Item 12: Placement with siblings
How effective is the agency in keeping brothers and sisters together in foster care?
Nashua
Aug-10
75

Item 13: Visiting with parents and siblings in foster care
How effective is the agency in planning and facilitating visitation between children in foster care and their parents and siblings
placed separately in foster care?
Nashua
Aug-10
55.6

Item 14: Preserving connections
How effective is the agency in preserving important connections for children in foster care, such as connections to neighborhood,
community, faith,family, tribe and friends?
Nashua
Aug-10
55.6

Item 15: Relative placement
How effective is the agency in identifying relatives who could care for children entering foster care, and using them as placement
resources when appropriate?
Nashua
Aug-10
33.3

Item 16: Relationship of child in care with parents
How effective is the agency in promoting or helping to maintain the parent-child relationship for children in foster care, when it is
appropriate to do so?
Nashua
Aug-10
55.6

Item 17: Needs and services of child, parents, foster parents.
How effective is the agency in assessing the needs of children, parents,
and foster parents, and in providing needed services to children in foster care,
to their parents and foster parents, and to children and families receiving
in-home services?
Nashua
Aug-10
33.3

Item 18: Child and family involvement in case planning.
Were concerted efforts made to involve parents and children
(if developmentally appropriate) in the case planning process on an
ongoing basis?
Nashua
Aug-10
50

Item 19: Caseworker visits with child.
How effective are agency workers in conducting faceto-face visits as often as needed
with children in foster care and those who receive services in their own homes?
Nashua
Aug-10
75

Item 20: Worker visits with parents.
How effective are agency workers in conducting faceto-face visits as often as needed with
parents of children in foster care and parents of children receiving in-home services?
Nashua
Aug-10
50

Item 21: Educational needs of the child.
How effective is the agency in addressing the educational needs of children in foster care
and those receiving services in their own home.
Nashua
Aug-10
81.8

Item 22: Physical health of the Child:
How effective is the agency in identifying and addressing the physical health and medical needs,
including dental needs, of children receiving in-home and foster care services?
Nashua
Aug-10
100

Item 23: Mental/behavioral health of the child.
How effective is the agency in identifying, assessing, and addressing the behavioral, emotional, and
mental health needs of children?
Nashua
Aug-10
63.6